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Modular quantum computing architectures are a promising alternative to monolithic QPU (Quantum Processing Unit) designs for scaling up quantum devices. They refer to a set of interconnected QPUs or cores consisting of tightly coupled…

Many of the envisioned use-cases for quantum computers involve optimisation processes. While there are many algorithmic primitives to perform the required calculations, all eventually lead to quantum gates operating on quantum bits, with an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-26 Lukas Schmidbauer , Elisabeth Lobe , Ina Schaefer , Wolfgang Mauerer

In this paper, we present an exact algorithm for optimizing two linear fractional over the efficient set of a multi-objective integer quadratic problem. This type of problems arises when two decision-makers, such as firms, each have a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-05 Ali Bencheikh , Mustapha Moulai , Ilies Badaoui

In this note, we describe an experiment on portfolio optimization using the Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) formulation. The dataset we use is taken from a real-world problem for which a classical solution is currently…

We introduce a novel quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO) formulation for a classical problem in electrical engineering -- the optimal reconfiguration of distribution grids. For a given graph representing the grid…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-31 Filipe F. C. Silva , Pedro M. S. Carvalho , Luis A. F. M. Ferreira , Yasser Omar

We propose and analyze a set of variational quantum algorithms for solving quadratic unconstrained binary optimization problems where a problem consisting of $n_c$ classical variables can be implemented on $\mathcal O(\log n_c)$ number of…

Discrete optimization belongs to the set of $\mathcal{NP}$-hard problems, spanning fields such as mixed-integer programming and combinatorial optimization. A current standard approach to solving convex discrete optimization problems is the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Kyle Mana , Fernando Acero , Stephen Mak , Parisa Zehtabi , Michael Cashmore , Daniele Magazzeni , Manuela Veloso

Abstraction layers are of paramount importance in software architecture, as they shield the higher-level formulation of payload computations from lower-level details. Since quantum computing (QC) introduces many such details that are often…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-04 Lukas Schmidbauer , Karen Wintersperger , Elisabeth Lobe , Wolfgang Mauerer

By introducing a quadratic perturbation to the canonical dual of the maxcut problem, we transform the integer programming problem into a concave maximization problem over a convex positive domain under some circumstances, which can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-10-16 Xiaojun Zhou

This work presents a novel tensor network algorithm for solving Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) problems, Quadratic Unconstrained Discrete Optimization (QUDO) problems, and Tensor Quadratic Unconstrained Discrete…

With the development of quantum computing, the use of quantum algorithms to solve combinatorial optimization problems on quantum computers has become a major research focus. The Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) model…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Haoqian Pan , Changhong Lu

This paper investigates the application of quantum computing technology to airline gate-scheduling quadratic assignment problems (QAP). We explore the quantum computing hardware architecture and software environment required for porting…

Challenging combinatorial optimization problems are ubiquitous in science and engineering. Several quantum methods for optimization have recently been developed, in different settings including both exact and approximate solvers. Addressing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-20 Nicolas PD Sawaya , Albert T Schmitz , Stuart Hadfield

The Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) is among leading candidates for achieving quantum advantage on near-term processors. While typically implemented with a transverse-field mixer (XM-QAOA), the Grover-mixer variant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-01 Evgeniy O. Kiktenko , Elizaveta V. Krendeleva , Aleksey K. Fedorov

Gray-box optimization leverages the information available about the mathematical structure of an optimization problem to design efficient search operators. Efficient hill climbers and crossover operators have been proposed in the domain of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Francisco Chicano , Darrell Whitley , Gabriela Ochoa , Renato Tinós

Quantum annealers provide an effective framework for solving large-scale combinatorial optimization problems. This work presents a novel methodology for training Variational Quantum Algorithms (VQAs) by reformulating the parameter…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Ernesto Acosta , Guillermo Botella , Carlos Cano

In usual restriction terms of the Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) hamiltonians, a integer number of logical qubits R, called the Integer Restriction Coefficient (IRC), are forced to stay active. In this paper we gather…

Quantum optimization methods use a continuous degree-of-freedom of quantum states to heuristically solve combinatorial problems, such as the MAX-CUT problem, which can be attributed to various NP-hard combinatorial problems. This paper…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-15 Ruho Kondo , Yuki Sato , Rudy Raymond , Naoki Yamamoto

We study a Grover-type method for Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) problems. For an $n$-dimensional QUBO problem with $m$ nonzero terms, we construct a marker oracle for such problems with a tuneable parameter, $\Lambda…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-22 Ákos Nagy , Jaime Park , Cindy Zhang , Atithi Acharya , Alex Khan

Bayesian optimization has recently emerged as a popular method for the sample-efficient optimization of expensive black-box functions. However, the application to high-dimensional problems with several thousand observations remains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-26 David Eriksson , Michael Pearce , Jacob R Gardner , Ryan Turner , Matthias Poloczek